Quotes About Detached

He never really cared too much about mechanical things.

Then there was Bryce - the most disturbing of all because I had to admit that I didn't really know him, either. And based on what I'd discovered lately, I didn't care to know anymore. Looking across the table at him, all I got was a strange, detached, neutral feeling. No fireworks, no leftover anger or resurging flutters. Nothing.

I insist on remaining aloof, self-absorbed, lovingly nursing my suspicions.

It felt ancient. Knowing. Utterly and profoundly indifferent to me.

Why did I desert Labour? Total bloody disillusionment. The party was a corpse. It had no ideology, it became detached, old, spineless and needed to go.

I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.

When I'm filming a documentary, I feel like I should be the straight man, watching with a raised eyebrow.

I never read the scripts at all carefully and never wanted to know what was going on, because i felt that being a benevolent alien, that's the way it should be

I'm serious, in general, and I guess I cling onto the little freedom I have offscreen. Having said that, I am funny and, at the same time, detached from a lot of things in life.

Indeed, there is always something very restful about a duck. Whatever earthquakes and upheavals may be afflicting the general public, it stands aloof from them and just goes on being a duck.

Thus looked at from outside, these guests --in this dead-and-alive dining room, of this dead-and-alive house, of this dead-and-alive street, of this dead-and-alive little town--in grey, dead winter of the deadliest part of the most deadly war in history--thus seen from a detached point of view, they presented an extraordinary spectacle.

I began to grasp the meaning of creation. I saw that death and life were not so much enemies as friendly comrades, not opposites that negate each other, but rather as variations of nature, each flowing out of the other. I felt myself detached from the world. Death no longer seemed terrible to me; indeed, it appeared less so than life. And the more I became submerged in myself, the more everything about me became alive and expressive and touched my soul.

I can hardly contain my indifference.

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

A machine does not care

Festivals or radio shows can be the heavyweight championships of arrogantly detached clusterfucks.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

During civil disturbance adopt such an attitude that people do not attach any importance to you - they neither burden you with complicated affairs, nor try to derive any advantage out of you.

As a warrior, she won't have allowed herself to mourn. But women can't make themselves as detached as men. Our hearts are bigger. We feel loss in a way men don't. Orna has the body and mind of a warrior but her heart is like mine, and I know inside she's weeping.

His mind seemed barely tethered to his body, much less the earth.

This would be a Zen-like state of productivity, in which you deal with what's present from a perspective that is both detached and fully engaged.

He looks mean in a kind of distant way.

He was as distant as the moon too, as expressionless & grim.